464 Quotes About Leaving

Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you.

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.

The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?" you kept asking over and over, the other time, when you were going to London."I'll do macrame, punk.""Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?""You really think I need you that bad?""Yes," you said. A simple Nebraska statement.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

She had never met Caroline's mother, but she knew a thing or two about what happened when someone went far away, how after a time you couldn't see their faces anymore when you closed your eyes or hear exactly how they laughed at a joke, how they seemed less like a real person whom you loved and more like a character in a story. And once that happened, it was easy, too easy, to let them float away like milkweed.

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.